The more observant amongst you will have noticed an odd little logo (which differs slightly each time) on the credits page of Push and on other things that I’ve produced, which says ‘Plaitford Productions’.Plaitford is the tiny village in the south of England where I grew up.Here, in case you’re interested, is a list of Plaitford Productions to date.-Richard Hart

(NB: I also did shirt designs for Element, NC Clothing, Carhartt WIP and Document magazine, some of which featured the PP logo but didn't get a catalogue number.)

PP#1- ‘Telephone Pad’ zine

1999, edition of 100. Features drawings.

This zine was made for an art show which I curated in San Francisco. All drawings, all skaters; it featured Big Foot, Chris Duncan, Jeremy Fish, Israel Forbes, Richard Hart, Jesse Hotchkiss, Brian Lotti, Lucian Moon and Mat O’Brien. The zine has one drawing by each person.

…Which remains unfinished. But could be, and perhaps will be, one day. Features Tony Manfre. PP#6 is the zine-of-the-film.

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PP#8- ‘Everything Went Black -and White’ zine

2004. Says it is an edition of 100, but the photocopies looked so awful when they appeared that I destroyed them all. I then made a ‘first new batch’ of about a dozen and, er.. never made any more.

Features drawings and photos; mostly by me, but also some artwork by Simon Evans and some photographs by Dave Schubert.

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PP#9- ‘Withnail’ shirt

Emblazened with just one of the myriad immortal lines from the film ‘Withnail & I’…

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PP#10- ‘Bodies’ shirt

‘Bodies’ shirt.

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PP#11- ‘Things Which Nag II’ zine

2005, edition of 100 I think; zine (and poster). Drawings. Stealthily made in the basement of Kingpin on the in-house photocopier (cheers NN!).

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PP#12- ‘Things Which Nag III’ zine

2007, zine with sticker, ed. of 34. Drawings.

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PP#13- fake 7″ cover

200?, ed. of 1. Produced for Sonny Smith’s ‘100 Records’ artshow which, as the name implies, featured 100 record covers for fictional bands, with real music made by Sonny and friends. In keeping with the theme, I gave mine the catalogue number of PP#13; even though there is only 1 in existence. And I’m not sure where, either..

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PP#14- website

WWWas the Plaitford Productions website. I think I had been thinking about Factory Records too much, and their habit of giving catalogue numbers to absolutely everything (including an ex-employee’s coffin).

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PP#15- Magenta Guest Artist Board

2014. This limited-edition board was released by Magenta.

“The text on the board is from an album title. There was a record I listened to a lot when I was at school, by Scottish Indie band the Soup Dragons. It’s called ‘This is our Art; Useless, Boring, Impotent, Elitist and Very, Very Beautiful’. I always appreciated the humour in that title and I happened to pull that record out around the time I did the board. It struck me that it was also a pretty good description of skating, at least from the point of view of an outsider- essentially useless, incomprehensible to the point of tedium, without any real power, definitely elitist and ‘cool’. I acknowledge all that, but of course our ‘art’ can also, as we know, be beautiful…”

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PP#16- Magenta Guest Artist T-shirt

Shirt accompanied board release. Graphic reads ‘Be the King of the Castle’; a reference to one of the songs in the album mentioned above.

Shot mid 2003- early 2004; edited 2014. Mostly (badly) filmed by Richard Hart and edited by RH with the assistance of Harry Gregory.

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PP#18- Howard House zine

2014, ed. of 150, of which 50 copies came with HH DVD.Assembled and printed to coincide with the release of the video, the zine featured photos which I shot between 1998-2004 whilst living at the Howard House in San Francisco. It was a Live/ PP co-production, hand-printed in Paris.

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PP#19- Krooked zine

2015, ed. of 333.This zine came with my Krooked Guest Board (see below) and featured photographs of the team, shot during a trip to New York (the video of which you can see here). Cover art by MG.

2016, ed. of ?. ‘Style Over Stunts’, the first quote in PP1’s contents page.

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PP#24- Push Periodical X Northern Co board

2016, ed. of 200; 50 each of three ‘normal’ shapes and one small cruiser shape.‘Today’s News is Tomorrow’s Fish & Chip Paper’; a cautionary British saying.

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PP#25- Postcard

2016, ed. of 500. This card featured a photo of Matt Town, Jesse Narvaez and Ryan Barlow, along with a quote from Matt Field's interview. 200 were included with the Northern boards, the others given away with mags.

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PP#26- Push Periodical issue 3

2016, ed. of 1000. Most copies came with a Magenta ‘Just Cruise’ DVD.

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PP#27- Push Periodical issue 4

2016, ed. of 1000.

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PP#28- Push/Sprinkles ‘Partial World Tour’ T-shirt and Tea Towel

2016, a dozen shirts were made and given to participants and friends during the PWT. About ten tea-towels were later screened, also as presents and with a few being sold on the site.

2017, ed. of ?. Produced by Kukunochi in Japan, the shirt was available in white and grey.

(Still available in Japan?)

The photograph originally appeared in 43 Magazine.

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PP#33- ‘Scraps From Limbo’ zine

2017, ed. of 50. Zine produced for the release of the BOL shirt in Tokyo. Photos/ drawings/ photocopy manipulations.

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PP#34- Push Periodical issue 7

2017, ed. of 1000. The first magazine to be printed in Europe (so a slightly different size/shape), and the first one to be free.

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PP#35- ‘Disassemble/Reassemble’ zine

2017, ed. of 70. Produced to be given away at the premiere of the PWTII video, in Croatia at the Vladimir Film Festival. Zine disassembles to make two large photographs (which later also appear in PP8).